Brushes vs Notebook Studio

Brushes 4 is the latest iteration of the app that started the iPhone and iPad painting revolution. Redesigned with a clean and modern user interface, Brushes supports iPhone and iPad with optimisation for the iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone Pro and iPad with Apple Pencil. • Highlights: - Clean and modern user interface with light and dark modes. - Files based painting gallery. - New canvas interface. - Apple Pencil support with pressure curve. – Unlimited undo and redo. - Continuous auto-save. - Cloud Drive import and export. • Parameterized Brushes: - Selection of ready to use brushes with customisable settings. - Create your own custom brushes from millions of permutations. - Generate random brushes for inspiration. - Dynamic adjustment of brush size and opacity. • Layers: - Layer your artwork for greater control. – Lock and hide layers. – Use alpha lock to only paint where pixels already exist. – Adjust individual layer opacity. – Duplicate, rearrange and merge layers. – Apply layer blending modes: normal, multiply, screen, exclude. - Color fill any layer. – Invert layer color and desaturate. – Flip and arbitrarily transform layers. – Adjust the color balance per layer. – Adjust layer hue, saturation and brightness. • Colors: - Colour picker with hue ring and saturation square. - Store and recall your favourite colors in swatches. - Sample painting colors with the eyedropper tool. • Apple Pencil: - Intuitive and powerful pressure curve to match your style. - Configurable realtime pressure based adjustment of brush size and opacity. • Creation: - Preset canvas sizes for paper, photographs, iPhone and iPad screens, film and television displays. - Custom canvas size. • Import, export and sharing: - Import images directly from your camera roll. - Import PNG and JPEG images from cloud services. - Export your paintings for sharing or importing into other apps as PNG and JPEG to all cloud storage services or as photos directly to your camera roll. - Compatible with paintings created by Brushes 3 and Brushes Redux. • Light and dark appearances: - Choose between light and dark monochrome appearances, or current system setting. - Minimal use of user interface color so that tints in the user interface do not distract from or influence your artwork color choices. Acknowledgements. Thank you to Angela Ali, Jason M., Jeff Parker, Sandra Perez and Yoshiyuki Uchida for contributing artwork to the App Store screenshots. Please visit our website to see more of their artwork and for links to their portfolios. History. Brushes was originally created by Steve Sprang for iPhone in 2009 and for iPad in 2010. His last version, Brushes 3 was released in 2012, but was removed from the App Store in 2015. I took over development to modernise and support an app that has continued to be enjoyed by so many artists.

Turn your ideas into bespoke, publication-quality digital notebooks and planners. Whether you write on a reMarkable, Supernote, Kindle Scribe, BOOX, Kobo, or iPad, Notebook Studio gives you complete creative freedom to design, customize, and export interactive, hyperlinked PDF planners tailored precisely to your workflow. No subscriptions, no cloud lock-in, and zero design experience required. DESIGNED FOR E-INK AND DIGITAL PAPER Generic PDFs often look blurry, misaligned, or awkwardly scaled on e-ink hardware. Notebook Studio is engineered from the ground up for digital paper displays: - Native Hardware Resolutions: Instant presets for reMarkable 2, reMarkable Paper Pro, Supernote A5 X, Supernote A5 X2 Manta, Kindle Scribe, BOOX Note Air 3 and 3 C, BOOX Go 10.3, Kobo Elipsa 2E, and iPad. - Custom Dimensions and Exact DPI: Creating for a unique screen? Enter custom pixel dimensions and device PPI with live physical millimeter and inch measurements. - 1:1 Physical Display Calibration: Preview your notebook at true life-size physical dimensions on your Mac or iPad screen before you export. Verify sizing against a standard card or the built-in millimeter ruler. POWERFUL STUDIO CANVAS EDITOR Enjoy a fluid, distraction-free desktop-grade design studio on iPad and Mac: - Magnetic Alignment and Snapping: Elements snap automatically to adjacent edges, centers, and margins with cyan visual guidelines and haptic feedback. - Multi-Selection and Marquee Lasso: Select multiple elements at once to move, align, distribute, group, duplicate, or delete in unison. - Hardware Keyboard Shortcuts: Full Magic Keyboard and Mac shortcut support. Nudge elements with arrow keys (Shift + Arrow for 10pt jumps), Undo/Redo (Cmd+Z / Shift+Cmd+Z), Copy/Paste (Cmd+C / Cmd+V), Duplicate (Cmd+D), and Select All (Cmd+A). - Native Studio Color Picker: Grayscale swatches optimized for e-ink contrast, RGB sliders, hex code input, and cohesive palette themes. INTERACTIVE HYPERLINKED NAVIGATION Effortlessly navigate even a 500-page planner: - Synchronized Navigation Tabs: Add sidebar index tabs that automatically stay positioned, styled, and layered across every page in your notebook. - Dynamic Table of Contents: Automatically compiles sections and page titles with one tap, styled to match your notebook theme. - Interactive Page Links: Link any text, badge, button, or icon directly to any page or section. RICH TEMPLATES AND MODULAR PRESETS Build your dream layout in seconds with modular, draggable components: - Productive Presets: Cornell Notes, Eisenhower Matrix, Habit Trackers, Daily Check-Ins, Mind Maps, and Action Plans. - Grid and Line Styles: Dot grid, lined/ruled, grid/graph, isometric, and music staves with fully configurable spacing, weight, and opacity. - Tables and Calendars: Configurable rows, columns, headers, and borders. - Custom Vectors and Photos: Import SVGs or photos with automatic image downsampling for high-speed e-ink page turning. - Custom Preset Library: Group your favorite element configurations and save them as reusable templates. VECTOR PDF EXPORT - Razor-Sharp Typography: Clean vector text and geometric paths that render crisply at any zoom level. - Ultra-Fast E-Ink Loading: Lightweight, standards-compliant PDF structure ensures instantaneous page turns without sluggish buffer lag. - 100% Private and Offline: Everything is created, rendered, and stored locally on your device. Your notes and plans belong exclusively to you. Download Notebook Studio today and craft the perfect digital notebook for your device!